"Singing the Gospel" offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and
its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the
sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The
Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal--where pastors, musicians, and
laity forged an enduring and influential union of Lutheranism,
music, and culture--is at the center of the story.
The Lutheran hymns, sung in the streets and homes as well as in
the churches and schools of Joachimsthal, were central instruments
of a Lutheran pedagogy that sought to convey the Gospel to lay men
and women in a form that they could remember and apply for
themselves. Townspeople and miners sang the hymns at home, as they
taught their children, counseled one another, and consoled
themselves when death came near.
Shaped and nourished by the theology of the hymns, the laity of
Joachimsthal maintained this Lutheran piety in their homes for a
generation after Evangelical pastors had been expelled, finally
choosing emigration over submission to the Counter-Reformation.
Singing the Gospel challenges the prevailing view that Lutheranism
failed to transform the homes and hearts of sixteenth-century
Germany.
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